Navajo Code Talkers
By: Nathan Aaseng
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Walker
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780802775894
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Indians of North America; Cryptography; Navajo Indians; Juvenile literature; Indian Participation
Description: Describes how the American military in World War II used a group of Navajo Indians to create an indecipherable code based on their native language.
Notes: "First published in the United States of America in 1992 by Walker Publishing Company, Inc."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-110) and index.

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 9.5 4.
Table of contents: title: War of words; title: Needed : an unbreakable code; title: Creating the code; title: Earning trust; title: Life in the war zone; title: Breaking Japanese codes; title: Island hopping; title: The battle of Sulfur Island : the code talkers' finest hour; title: Back home.